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Music Crush with FNMC

Music Crush with FNMC

By Music Crush

A new music podcast hosted by flutists Nicole Riner and Elizabeth Robinson of the Flute New Music Consortium. Episode formats vary between interviews with composers and flutists influencing the contemporary performance world, new music listening sessions, and conversations exploring the nature of our work as musicians and collaborative artists. New episodes every other Wednesday.
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Interview: Tim Hagen

Music Crush with FNMCMar 20, 2024

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Interview: Tim Hagen
Mar 20, 202450:02
Interview Carter Pann

Interview Carter Pann

Today, Elizabeth and Nicole get some much-needed, soul-searching inspiration from composer Carter Pann. We talk about the value of not being perfect in your youth, the complicated beauty of embracing identity in your work, and Carter shares some great advice about ways to stay curious for adventurers of all ages. Trigger warning: we may or may not dunk on social media. 

https://www.carterpann.com/

Charles Wuorinen, The Golden Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehdYwbTAHn4

Paul Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WnNgrH57E

Fred Lerdahl, Fantasy Etudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIE4Q_QOKk

Steve Reich, Double Sextet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ITDgWp_gQ

Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U

Igor Stravinsky, Octet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUUWFf7QOw


Mar 06, 202457:14
Interview: Kevin Day
Feb 21, 202430:39
Deep Dive: the FNMC Composition Competition

Deep Dive: the FNMC Composition Competition

Ever wonder how FNMC’s Composition Competition came into existence? Today Nicole talks with Elizabeth, who runs the competition, about how we determine categories, choose finalists, and the elements of the competition that perhaps make it most uniquely FNMC: our commitment to repeatedly programming winning pieces, and the membership vote that drives the whole shebang. Composers looking to learn more about FNMC’s Composition Competition, or in search of some helpful tips for any competition, this one is required listening for you! (PS, Elizabeth won the Graduate Research Competition hosted by NFA, not FNMC, but you probably already knew that.)


Feb 07, 202445:35
Interview: Paul Richards
Jan 24, 202442:08
Deep Dive: New Music Festivals

Deep Dive: New Music Festivals

Elizabeth and Nicole discuss their experiences attending new music festivals (with heavy–and admiring–emphasis on New Music Gathering) and explain their own process in programming FNMC’s New Music Festival. There are some great tips here for developing winning proposals, as well as a reveal of our upcoming NMF dates!


Jan 10, 202455:39
Interview: Melissa Keeling
Dec 27, 202355:17
Interview: Jane Rigler
Dec 13, 202301:02:33
Music Crush Season 2: The Re-Crushening

Music Crush Season 2: The Re-Crushening

Trailer for Season 2

Nov 29, 202301:19
Interview: Anne Guzzo
Nov 15, 202353:13
Interview: Megan Ihnen
Nov 01, 202358:47
Interview: Jennifer Piazza-Pick
Oct 18, 202344:19
Interview: Kim Osberg
Oct 04, 202301:00:49
Interview: Jessica Rudman
Sep 20, 202335:25
Oops, did I oversell it?
Sep 06, 202348:34
Flute quartet is, like, Elizabeth’s whole personality
Aug 09, 202344:23
Interview: Jane K (Evgeniya Kozhevnikova)
Jul 12, 202338:40
Interview: Cherise Leiter

Interview: Cherise Leiter

CHERISE LEITER, composition and theory professor at Metropolitan State University in Denver, won FNMC’s Composition Competition back in 2017 with The Life in a Day for flute, cello, and guitar. She has since been commissioned by FNMC for her solo flute work, a voice silenced, a voice sings, which was given its delayed premiere by our very own Elizabeth Robinson back in February of this year.  Today, Cherise crushes on Ella Fitzgerald and Hildegard von Bingen, educates Nicole on Bardcore, and discusses how the pandemic affected her work as both an artist and an educator. Cherise also wanted to add to that Dr. Michelle Stanley premiered and recorded The Life in a Day and commissioned American Folk Suite, both of which get mentions in this episode. Thank you, Michelle!

https://www.cherisedleiter.com/

Dancing Queen, bardcore style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7gN81ZRyBA

Stuart Nicholson, Ella Fitzgerald: https://stuartnicholson.uk/books/ella-fitzgerald/

Something to Live For: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/ella-fitzgerald-something-to-live-for/590/

How High the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw4N8P6c3Ws

All of Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr_EX9Ppfjw

The Sun Tones, Watch What Happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltx2DUQSwA8

Whistling Hens: https://www.whistlinghens.com/

Allison Krauss and Robert Plant, Can’t Let Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-sPS9y7y5c


Jun 21, 202348:28
Interview: Zaq Latino

Interview: Zaq Latino

ZAQ LATINO (they/them) works as an actor, arts administrator, and crafter of extremely beautiful compositions in New York, but perhaps the most meaningful title for what they do is “storyteller”. Today, Zaq gives us a window into all of their worlds and shares their wonderfully generous perspective on collaborating with others! We also explore feelings–about performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, and knowing you’re in the right place.

https://www.zaqlatino.com/

fitting-in: https://soundcloud.com/zaq-latino/fitting-in-for-solo-flutist-definitive-studio-recording

The Social Network, opening scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFqhChmHCc

Panic at the Disco, High Hopes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXIgEAGe4U

Bright Eyes, The People’s Key: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyxRNc_gTs

John Adams, My Father Knew Charles Ives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWIP9tbB2m0

Joni Mitchell, Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3i-uXnF6M

Jun 07, 202341:25
Interview: Meerenai Shim
May 24, 202344:23
Interview: Lauren McCall
May 10, 202344:50
This is how the sausage is made
Apr 26, 202347:57
Interview: Mikel Kuehn
Apr 12, 202346:35
Interview: Erika Boysen
Mar 29, 202348:03
Interview: Ellen Ruth Harrison

Interview: Ellen Ruth Harrison

ELLEN RUTH HARRISON has experienced impostor syndrome. The composer of Beneath a Canopy of Wings for flute and clarinet (FNMC composition competition winner, 2021), discusses her humble upbringing and disdain for snooty restaurants, the limitations of composing for unfamiliar instruments, the function of all-female music festivals, and she fills us in on her new orchestral piece, which will be premiered by CCM’s undergraduate orchestra in September 2023.

https://www.ellenruthharrison.com/

Beneath a Canopy of Wings: https://soundcloud.com/user-144838513/beneath-a-canopy-of-wings

Norman Finkelstein, Restless Messengers: https://www.poetryinreview.com/

Bach Brandenburg Concerti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTm2kEAfo8o

L'Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar, Music For A While: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Li1KiA91xk

Beethoven String Quartets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYveHXyzViw

Mar 15, 202338:32
Interview: Yoshi Weinberg
Mar 01, 202350:58
Find a Way to Make it Work
Feb 15, 202301:08:02
Interview: Lisa Neher

Interview: Lisa Neher

LISA NEHER, a singer and composer based in Portland, won FNMC’s 2022 Composition Competition with her solo flute work Reach Out. She discusses the dichotomy between performing and composing, the importance of genuine social connection, and some great practical advice for composers looking to pay their rent (spoiler alert: you will not make all of your money from sheet music sales).

https://www.lisanehermusic.com/

Reach Out: https://www.lisanehermusic.com/reach-out.html

Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music: https://www.glfcam.com/

Gabriela Lena Frank, Andean Songs: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/36166/New-Andean-Songs--Gabriela-Lena-Frank/

Mannheim Steamroller, Carol of the Bells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVftSkNgJTA

Enya, Only Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

Feb 01, 202351:00
I like chickens, I like feminism, and I like Jennifer Higdon
Jan 18, 202348:15
Interview: Robert McClure
Jan 04, 202301:03:39
Is there an endpoint?
Dec 21, 202258:06
Interview: Michael Genese
Dec 07, 202247:32
Music Crush: Preview
Nov 16, 202200:57